I’m crazy about movies depicting and sympathizing with life on skid row. Here we have a little girl who lives with her ​​alcoholized father in a lagoon landscape near the coast, literally in the shadow of those who live on the “dry side”. Life is pretty simple and it’s holiday most of the time. But the storm comes and drowns the whole neighborhood with salt water so that most people flee, and all living things eventually die. But pride is stronger than survival so they stay and live on raw seafood. The dad is sick and the mother is a memory. Family ties are tested with fires and shelters, and with beatings and disease. In the end, everything must come to an end, but maybe there is a mother among the whores. It’s all very beautiful. There is a romantic tone throughout the film that becomes sympathetic because of the misery it comes from. The margins are so small that nothing can be hidden and no falsehood can fit. Then they let the child’s imagination paint reality with sound, and the mythical aurochs symbolize the strength of the raw and wild. Child acting is complicated, but having that said, this little girl is amazing as proud but needy, and Quvenzhané Wallis has been nominated for an Academy Award. You might have to work a bit to get carried away with it all, but it’s worth it. You have nothing to lose. It’s like an emotional documentary, though fantastic.